ACWS HISTORICAL ARTICLES
The Archived Articles listed below have mostly appeared in The American Civil War Society Newsletter, which is published every three months in paper format for its members and on-line for public viewing on this web site.
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HISTORY
- 4th Texas Battle Flag UPDATED 22-Mar
- Yankee Aggression UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Cedar Creek UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Cold Harbor UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Helena UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Little Blue River UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Malvern Hill UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Mobile Bay UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Pea Ridge UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Philippi UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Battle of Secessionville UPDATED 22-Mar
- Miscellaneous Battles UPDATED 22-Mar
- Botelers Ford 1862 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Boys In The Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Soldiers View Of First Bull Run UPDATED 22-Mar
- C F Davis Escape From Andersonville UPDATED 22-Mar
- Camp Douglas 1864 Conspiracy UPDATED 22-Mar
- Camp Lawton - Largest Prison? UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Good Caning UPDATED 22-Mar
- Capture of New Orleans UPDATED 22-Mar
- Captain Carter Returns Home UPDATED 22-Mar
- The First Coloured Troops UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Blockade Runner UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Regimental Mascots UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Submarine Base Located UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Ten Costliest Battles of the Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Constitution UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Flags UPDATED 22-Mar
- The CSS Hunley Discovery UPDATED 22-Mar
- The CSS Hunley Discovery - Update UPDATED 22-Mar
- CSS/USS Planter UPDATED 22-Mar
- David Dodd - CS Boy Martyr UPDATED 22-Mar
- Death Toll Keeps Rising UPDATED 22-Mar
- Draft Riots UPDATED 22-Mar
- Englishmen Of Honour UPDATED 22-Mar
- First Shot of the War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Making Friends with the Enemy UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Confederate Funeral in Charleston, SC UPDATED 22-Mar
- Alexander Gardner UPDATED 22-Mar
- George Gibbs UPDATED 22-Mar
- Gettysburg Facts UPDATED 22-Mar
- Gettysburg - A Family Affair UPDATED 22-Mar
- Griswoldville - Gettysburg of Georgia UPDATED 22-Mar
- Guerilla Warfare UPDATED 22-Mar
- Andros Guille's Civil War experience UPDATED 22-Mar
- Hiram Berdan and the US Sharpshooters UPDATED 22-Mar
- Honey Springs UPDATED 22-Mar
- Honourable Surrender UPDATED 22-Mar
- Cornelia Hancock and Euphemia Goldsborough at Gettysburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Laird Rams For The Confederacy UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Last Confederate Widow Living? UPDATED 22-Mar
- Last Will And Testament UPDATED 22-Mar
- Lee's Health At Gettysburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Units of Lee's Army UPDATED 22-Mar
- Lee's Foresight UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Soldier's Letter UPDATED 22-Mar
- Libby Prison UPDATED 22-Mar
- Marie Tepe UPDATED 22-Mar
- Making Legends Of Regimental Mascots UPDATED 22-Mar
- Myths of the Confederacy UPDATED 22-Mar
- Myths Of The Confederacy - part 2 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Nancy Hart - Confederate Spy UPDATED 22-Mar
- British Connections - Northamptonshire UPDATED 22-Mar
- Palmyra Massacre UPDATED 22-Mar
- James Johnston Pettigrew at Gettysburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Pinkerton Detective UPDATED 22-Mar
- Politics And War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Recruiting Fever, Early Days UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Siege of Petersburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Siege of Port Hudson UPDATED 22-Mar
- Siege of Yorktown UPDATED 22-Mar
- Field Diary Of Private James P Snell UPDATED 22-Mar
- Southern Bazaar For Wounded Prisoners UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Strange Story of Antietam UPDATED 22-Mar
- Civil War Surgery UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Sutherland Affair UPDATED 22-Mar
- Underground Railroad UPDATED 22-Mar
- Proposed Division Of Union Flag UPDATED 22-Mar
- USS Monitor and CSS Virginia UPDATED 22-Mar
- Washington, A Capital Without Defences UPDATED 22-Mar
- Women in the Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Christmas During The Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
BIOGRAPHY
- Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard UPDATED 22-Mar
- Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain UPDATED 22-Mar
- Johnny Clem 'Drummer Boy' UPDATED 22-Mar
- George Armstrong Custer UPDATED 22-Mar
- Varina Davis UPDATED 22-Mar
- Nathan Bedford Forrest UPDATED 22-Mar
- Elisha Hunt Rhodes UPDATED 22-Mar
- Philip Kearny UPDATED 22-Mar
- Abraham Lincoln UPDATED 22-Mar
- James Longstreet UPDATED 22-Mar
- George G. Meade UPDATED 22-Mar
- Thomas Francis Meagher UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Poet Laureate of the South UPDATED 22-Mar
- Charles Kuhn Prioleau UPDATED 22-Mar
- Philip H. Sheridan UPDATED 22-Mar
- Susan Baker King Taylor UPDATED 22-Mar
- George Henry Thomas UPDATED 22-Mar
- Sojourner Truth UPDATED 22-Mar
- John Wilkes Booth UPDATED 22-Mar
- Yorkshire Rebel - Harry Dixon Jessop UPDATED 22-Mar
MILITARY
- 2nd U.S. Artillery Battery B - A History UPDATED 22-Mar
- 4th Virginia Infantry - A History UPDATED 22-Mar
- 4th Texas - A History UPDATED 22-Mar
- 6th United States Colored Troops - A History UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Great Adventure UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV Blankets & Substitutes UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV In Blue 'English Army Cloth' UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV Gardener Canteens UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV Sky Blue Trousers UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV Slouch Hats UPDATED 22-Mar
- ANV Uniforms - 1862 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Blue on Blue UPDATED 22-Mar
- Confederate Officers Uniform Coat UPDATED 22-Mar
- C.S.S. Alabama, Commerce Raider UPDATED 22-Mar
- Discipline in the Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Enfield Rifle Factory in England UPDATED 22-Mar
- Equipment of Confederate Soldiers UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Generic Confederate UPDATED 22-Mar
- Gettysburg - The Soldiers View UPDATED 22-Mar
- Handgun Statistics UPDATED 22-Mar
- The Pampered Louse UPDATED 22-Mar
- Ordnance Board Concern - Improper Wet Sponging. 1841 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Peter Tait - The Man The Company And The Uniforms UPDATED 22-Mar
- Provost Guard UPDATED 22-Mar
- Ragged Rebels UPDATED 22-Mar
- Richmond Depot Clothing Manufactory UPDATED 22-Mar
- Richmond Depot Style Issue Jackets UPDATED 22-Mar
- Richmond Depot Mid War Kepis UPDATED 22-Mar
- Rockbridge Artillery - A History UPDATED 22-Mar
- Springfield Rifle Musket 1863 Type 1., Samuel Norris And William T Clemens (Contract) UPDATED 22-Mar
- Sultana's Last Voyage UPDATED 22-Mar
- Typical Confederate Soldier UPDATED 22-Mar
- Uniforms of the Union - 1862 UPDATED 22-Mar
- U.S.S. Constitution UPDATED 22-Mar
- Virginia Battlefields UPDATED 22-Mar
- What made a Veteran? UPDATED 22-Mar
- V.M.I. Cadets 1864 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Veteran Reserve Corps UPDATED 22-Mar
MISCELLANEOUS
- Balloons In The American Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Philip Baybutt Tribute UPDATED 22-Mar
- Brooke Bond Tea and the A.C.W. UPDATED 22-Mar
- Embalming Exhibit UPDATED 22-Mar
- ACW Factoids By Pursell UPDATED 22-Mar
- History of American Civil War Films UPDATED 22-Mar
- Gettysburg 'Witness' Tree UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Grave Confederate Discovery UPDATED 22-Mar
- Iron Horse (ACW Railways) UPDATED 22-Mar
- Iron Horse (ACW Railways) - Part 2 UPDATED 22-Mar
- Civil War Jargon UPDATED 22-Mar
- Last Confederate Stronghold UPDATED 22-Mar
- A Gem from General Lee UPDATED 22-Mar
- General Lee's Health at Gettysburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Lincoln's Letter to Men of Manchester UPDATED 22-Mar
- Liverpool and the American Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Miscellaneous Factual Snippets UPDATED 22-Mar
- Miscellaneous Factual Snippets 2 UPDATED 22-Mar
- North Carolina Civil War Discovery Trail UPDATED 22-Mar
- Portsmouth Hospital UPDATED 22-Mar
- Quotes from the American Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Sewing Machines in the Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Snowball Fight UPDATED 22-Mar
- Songs of the American Civil War UPDATED 22-Mar
- Taps UPDATED 22-Mar
- The U.S. Christian Commission UPDATED 22-Mar
RE-ENACTING
- An Account of the Recent Battle at Gettysburg UPDATED 22-Mar
- Gilham vs. Hardee Drill Manual Debate UPDATED 22-Mar
- Greenhorn Turning Blue (Part 1) UPDATED 22-Mar
- Greenhorn Turning Blue (Part 2) UPDATED 22-Mar
- Re-enacting with Horses UPDATED 22-Mar
- Ladies Page - Hints and Tips UPDATED 22-Mar
- Cavalry - Man Down! UPDATED 22-Mar
- Maryland Campaign Event UPDATED 22-Mar
- Re-enacting Roles for Children UPDATED 22-Mar
- Civilian Re-Enacting Roles For Men UPDATED 22-Mar
- Re-enacting Roles for Women UPDATED 22-Mar
- Form Square Against Cavalry UPDATED 22-Mar
- Threats to Re-enacting UPDATED 22-Mar
- Useful Stuff For Re-enactors UPDATED 22-Mar
- Where now for Re-enacting? UPDATED 22-Mar